Persecution - what does it look like?

I discovered an old movie at YouTube yesterday.  It was about the Nazis taking over Denmark... when they thought they were safe.

It was a reminder how fast violence happens.

The Nazis had lists of where to find the Jews.  They prepared to invade on one day, a Jewish holiday, when they expected all the Jews to be home.  Rumors of the Nazis coming for the Jews had been a daily event so their invasion was not believed or expected by many... until it was clear they were moving into action.

It was a reminder that money is always a problem in oppression, and how sudden events mean you can lose everything, sometimes your life.

This 1970 movie was called THE ONLY WAY.  I watched it on a channel called "Goose."  

I keep wondering how modern technology will change the options for survival we will have when everything changes for us.

Years ago I discovered that all new cars were equipped with some kind of tracking device and that all new freeways (maybe more than freeways, I don't know) we built with the ability to track all those vehicles.  Now we have more advanced tracking devices, and the microchip in our bodies will be the ultimate government tracking option.  We may have BETA tracking in our cards with microchips... who knows!?!  

I have wondered if our evolving chip-based credit/banking system, and RFID technology, is the testing ground for what lies ahead.  It didn't seem like a problem as long as the chip was in the card, but who knows what else is attached to it.  If thieves can capture your card information through the air, who else is collecting it?

It seems smartphones are the next step in collecting information and tracking everything we do - say - record - and more.  I saw something about phones being programmed as a single financial option... starting in countries like Africa and India, if I remember that right.

I don't always take notes when I am listening to things, and a lot of my historical details have been lost in my own life struggles.  

I just don't know why GOD hasn't provided for Working Together.  We need so much to prepare to last as long as we can.  The movie I watched was about one small city in a very small country.  What will we do in our time?  

Maybe it will all be over in a very short time.

We may not need anything.

I find that so hard to deal with.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us 

This is from last year, but the details are the same.  I hope your community is preparing for what is ahead, not just for those who are dedicated to GOD and saved by CHRIST, but for our loved ones.

Continuing to think about our future as Christians

I watched an old movie on YouTube last night.  It was about a Jewish family separated by the Nazis and the war.  Half in America, half in Poland.  It was about the damage the war caused to them, individually and as a family.  The theme was how to heal from all that pain, from changing traditions, from memories that kept haunting them.

This movie didn't have all the blood and violence of war and detention camps.  It was sharing the pain of recovering, and the hurt that our pain causes others - especially within families.  This was many years of their lives coming to a single turning point. 

Finding lost loved ones, not knowing if those left behind before the war were alive or dead, dealing with the "what-ifs" about their past - what might have changed if they acted differently, these were the difficulties of recovery for this one Jewish family. 

It was another movie about how persecution affects the rest of our lives.  It made me thing again about what those who hate GOD will do to our lives... including death.

The name of the 1992 movie was "Miss Rose White," if you want to watch it yourselves.  The main star was Kyra Sedgwick, who played the part of Rose.

Hollywood always has a purpose in making movies.  I never thought about the subtleties under a movie's contents before I grew up and then realized the messages hidden in them.  Mostly about cultural change.  I wouldn't say the goals of Hollywood were good.  It seems to be Satan appearing as an angel of light most of the time... making evil look good, harmless, fun.  

In this movie, the cultural change was Miss Rose White.  She had changed her Jewish name to the title name in order to fit into the" modern" culture where she existed.  She was determined to have a career, not wed or have children.  To her family (father) she seemed to be fully Jewish.  Hiding the differences was the way she lived.

Bringing lost family into her private world created the battles of the movie, and also became the path to healing.

I suppose this is the formula for a movie, but the details are where Hollywood lives.  What the characters say.  What is seen on the walls behind the main characters.  The way they live.

I see all of this changing as each generation reaches moviedom.  Look at the internet today.  What does "the entertainment industry" decide is worth spending money on to get your attention?  

I don't want to continue with this.  It's depressing me.  I long for a more protected world.  I don't want to fight these battles every time I try to watch or read or listen to something.  How can we live in this world and not be entangled by it?  I don't know.  I keep trying to find my own answer.

When I get so caught up in the troubles we face, I begin to pray for GOD's help - for me, for my sons, for my extended family, for my fellow Christians and Jews.  I seek GOD so often it seems there will never be an answer.

People of Faith have always faced these moral issues.  We battle the best we can.  Our generation is at an unusual turning point in spiritual history.  How will we stand in faith against the powers that lead up to the Antichrist?  How will we stand in our faith when death is the only path?

I hope you are thinking about this, too.  That kind of faith doesn't just happen in a moment, we have to have it before the crisis hits.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us

Digital Currency and the Mark of the Beast

 This morning I found a couple emails about digital currency and our future.  One was from a survival group, the other was from a news source.  The message was the same -- digital currency means government control of our money.

It's frightening to even think this is happening.

Why does our government feel it has the right to decide what we can buy?!

I suppose the healthcare mandates gave it a new sense of power, or maybe desperation.  The end goal is to lower the costs of what the government pays for.  Total control means a lot of force on the free-market system.  

There isn't enough tax money to pay for everything some in the government want to establish.  We can only pay so much in taxes if we want to survive ourselves, and taxes are already too high for everyone.  I created this graphic awhile ago, but I hope to post it on social media a lot as this election cycle continues.

I have the idea we need to reform the government down to just ONE tax... a sales tax of 10% that is divided between the three government entities of federal, state, and county, plus 1% for our international obligations. 

I added that graphic to this post but it seems to only work in the position below the first one.  Someday I will learn how to make my posts look the way I want them to look.

I discovered, after creating my graphic, that we have an amendment about taxes.  A Paul Harvey video called FREEDOM TO CHAINS shares that there is no limit to the amount of taxes the government can claim... all the way to 100% is legally possible.  Did anyone know that when they created this amendment?  I suppose we just assumed the government would never do that.

Our societies have become less godly in the years since many of our laws were created.  It makes a difference.  

The focus on digital currency is just one step away from the MARK of the Beast.  Once digital currency is the law of the land, requiring the financial microchip into every body will create the biblical MARK and the eventual end to all Christians, who will oppose it.

I said long ago that most of these changes we object to come into power under the banner of "safety."  It's the threat of harm that becomes the political hammer and we (the people) have to submit to what our elected representatives choose for us.

Democracy has become a weapon against those who believe in America, in GOD, in the good that freedom creates, in moral foundations, in biblical values of Truth, Justice, Charity, Love, Faith, and Human Worth.  We are now more swiftly becoming an oppressed people.

It is hard to see this happening.

Prophecy is something that cannot be changed.  We just don't know how it will become reality.  How much longer do you think we have?